Re: [Full-disclosure] Help with education

["Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:01:59 -0400 Dude VanWinkle 
<dudevanwinkle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 7/17/07, Evan Pitstick <bikingnerd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am looking to become a security consultant(White hat) in a few 
>years
>> and I was looking for some advice on the best certifications to 
>get,
>> graduate level schools and majors, and any web sites that will 
>continue
>> to help me along my path. I am currently a student at a school 
>in
>> Atlanta, USA for Information Security and Assurance. Any ideas?
>
>What kind of Security do you enjoy most, Auditing, Pentesting,
>Compliance, Programming? I recommend you pick the one you have fun 
>at.
>If you dont enjoy any of them, be prepared to be unhappy for a 
>long
>time :-)
>
>
>As far as schools:
>I hear www.gatech.edu has a really good program, and its in 
>atlanta.
>
>as far as certs:
>CISSP will get you more money, but you will learn more from SANS 
>certs.
>
>If you want to be a good Security Consultant at the Technical 
>level it
>is important that you have a smattering of everything: programming
>networking, administration, etc.. If you walk into a place and 
>expect
>to start telling people what to do, you should at least have 
>walked a
>mile in their shoes before doing so. This means learning Lotus,
>Exchange, Sendmail, Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL, Linux, BSD, Solaris,
>Windows, etc, ad infinitum.
>
>If you want to be a great infosec person, you need to be able to 
>teach
>yourself. Much of the territory covered by infosec is new and
>unexpected ways of using technology. This cant really be taught.
>
>hth,
>
>-JP
>
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